Tufted-mattress button



May lo P. P. BEBRY TUFTED MATTRESS BUTTON Filed Oct. 22, 1925 rie Patented May 10, 1927. UNITED STATES APATENT OFFICE,

- PEBCIVAL P. BBBY, F WEST BOXBUBY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOB TOENGLANDE'B l i SPRING BED COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, .A CORPORATION OF NEW Yoan.

Turman-MATTRESS BUTTON.

application mea october a2, 1921s., m. 34,089.

mattressesare avoided. e

s is well known, mattresses. are tufted by drawin` a thread therethrough at in tervas to form tufts to keep the material `of the mattress from-changing position, `and for the purpose of preventing the thread from cutting the Lfabric a suitablel button,

piece of fabric or other .suitable .material is1 -drawn into position by the thread. Frequently however, these buttons with their wire- Shanks or loops cut the threads, or the heads of the buttons break away7 from the Shanks, resulting in the loosemng of the tufts and in an unsightly appearance of the mattress, and where buttons are sewed to the mattress in this manner, itis impossible .v to replace them, except by the application of new threads, and practically the retufting of the mattress, which the average user has -no facilities for doing., It is therefore the purpose of this invention to doy away with these difficulties and enable the buttons to` be quickl replaced by the user.

In t e drawings accompanying an'dforming a part of this specification, Fig. 1 is a cross section of this-improved button in posif` tion; Fig. 2 is a bottom view of-the button;

Fig. 3 illustrates a portion of a mattress having these vimproved buttons applied thereto; and Fig. 4 is a transverse. section taken online 4-4 Fig. 2.

`Before explainin in detail the present improvement and mo e of operation thereof, I desire to have itunderstood that the i'liv'fx'i'i'v tion is not limited to the details of c0nSt1'\1c' -v tion and arrangement of parts -which'are illustrated in` the accompanying drawings,Y

\ since the invention is capable of other embodiments, and that the phraseology which t I employ is forthe purposen of description" and not of limitation; l

This improvedbutt'on, which may be made 'in any ornamental form, .comprises in the preferred form thereof vherein k'shown a top or head 2 and a bottom plate 3 within `the margin of which struck out` a resilient wide bowed shank or tongue 4 forming'a recess or groove 5 for the receptidn of the thread loop 6. The free end of thistongue is curved, and projects away from the bottom plate as at 7 Aand is outwardly bent, and

acts as a guide lor lip to catch or hook the thread loop. and guide it into position, and 1s provided with an instruck mwardly extending` retaining projection 8 extending in an inclined sition toward the loop groove, and thus 1s 1n position to'prevent the button from snapping off of the 4 stitch or threadloop, The side edges ofthe groove formed ortlon of the tongue Iare rounded as at 9, ormlng a transversely curved saddle for the thread tov prevent thel fraying or cutting of the thread loop, and the tongue is also relatively wideto also prevent the'cutting of the thread loop. The tongue in the present improvement is struck up from ractically the centerl of .the

plate itself, so t at itdoes not require any metal added to ,the plate to lform the tongue. In other words, the metal of the disk'shaped .plate itself is utilized toform the tongue.

In the application of this improved button after the mattress is tufted by the.v usualV thread being drawn therethrough atinter- Y vals, .it is merely necessary to snap the buttons 1n place by insertingthe tongue lip 7 -underthe thread and moving the button laterally until it passes into the groove or recess fin the tongue, the inward projection 8 preventing the' button from subsequently snapping oif. Should the button head subsequently break off, it is merely necessary to remove the old button plate andplace a new button in position in the manner just de- -sc rib ed, which can be readily done, and this without. vthe necessity of retufting or re- -stitclnng any portion of the mattress. i "f-.flhus the resent improvement does away withthe sewing on of buttons on tufted mattresses and enables the user to always have a l,p rbperly appearing 'matt-rese, so that the ...present imp rovedbutton is well adapted for tufted upholstery and tufted mattresses.

' 4Itis to be understood that by describing in detail lherein any particular form, structure or arrangement, it is not intended to limitL the invention .beyond the terms of the several claims or therequirements of the prior art.

Having thus explained the nature of my vsaid invention and described a way of conof 'its use,

structing and using the same, although without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it maybe made, or all of the modes claim:

1. A tufted mattress button having formed as va part thereof a shank-forming bowed tongue for'receiving a thread loop of a mattress, said tongue being struck out from and located. wholly within the margin v having struck out therefrom an inwardly ceiving wardly extending lip projecting thread loop retaining portion, inclined toward the vvertical axisof the button. n I

3. A tufted mattress button having,

formed as a part/"thereof a shank-forming bowed tongue for receiving a thread loop of a mattress, said tongue being struck out from and located wholly within the margin of the lower side of the button, said tongue havingstruck out therefrom an inwardly projecting thread loop retaining portion inclined toward the vertical axis of the button, and located aboveand in juxtaposition to the bowed portion of the tongue..

It.y A tufted mattress button having its bottom plate provided with a relatively wide resilient ogee formed tongue struck out-from within the margin of the plate forminga thread loop groove and a guiding" lip, the latter having an inwardly extending inclined l retaining projection. j

5. A tufted mattress button having a part of its bottom plate struckv out from within the margin of the plate and bent to form a recessed tongue and an outwardly A,extending guiding lip having anV inwardly extending retaining projection. l

, 6.- A tuftede mattress button having formed as a part thereof -and struck out from the underside thereof a shank forming bowed tongue for receiving a` thread loop, said tongue having a thread loop` guiding lip and also having struck out therefrom a`n inwardly projecting thread loop retaining portion located above and in juxtaposition to the bowed portion of the tongue.

7. A tufted mattress button vhaving a bottom plate provided with an integral tongue struck out from substantially the center of said plate, said tongue having a thread reroove transversely thereof .having curved side edges and also .having an outrovided with an inwardly extending retaming projection.

8. A tufted mattress button having a bottom plate provided with an integral resilient tongue struck out from within the margin of the plate, said tongue having a bowedl 10. A tufted mattress button having a botl torn. plate providedl with a4 tongue struck out from within the margin of said plate, said tongue bent to forma thread receiving groove having a transversely curved saddle to conform to the shape ofthe thread loopv and prevent the cuttingthereof and also having an inwardly extending threadd retaining projection.

11. A tufted tom plate provided with a tongue struck out from within the margin of said plate` saidtongue bent to form a thread receiving groove'having a transversely curved saddle to conform tothe shape ofthe thread loop and prevent the cutting thereof and also having an inwardly extending thread retaining rojection, said tonguehaving an outywar 1y extendin thread loop guiding lip.

12. A'tufting gut-ton having its back provided With a combined thread loop receiving tongue and retaining pro'ection for the eception of a previously ormed thread 13. A tufting button havingl its back provided with a thread loop receiving tongue and a thread loop retaining s rojection for the reception of a previously ormed thread loop, both struck out from the back of said button.v

14. A tufting button. having its back provided With a thread loop receiving tongue for the reception of a previously formed threadloop and struck up from such back -and shaped to retain the thread.

mattress' button having a bot.-

15. A button yfor tufted upholstery embodying a plurality of complemental parts:

one of whichis provided with a retainer 1126 deflected with respect to the plane of said part and adapted foryengagement with a tufting thread.

Signed at Boston, the county -of Suffolk,

State of 'Massachusetts, this 19th day of October, 1925.`

PERCIVAL P. BEBRY.- 

